By Camillus Eboh

ABUJA, October 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Sovereign Tribunal on Thursday upheld Chair Bolo tie Tinubu's election win, bringing to an oddment a effectual challenge brought by his deuce principal rivals, WHO argued that his triumph was marred by irregularities.

The opinion bequeath ease up 71-year-former Tinubu a clear-cut mandate to regularize Africa's about thickly settled nation, which is wrestle with double-dactyl inflation, foreign currency shortages, a weakening naira, site widespread insecurity and blunt oil thieving.

The biggest opposition, People's Democratic Political party (PDP), said it was "alarmed and disappointed" by the ruling, but Tinubu welcomed the judgement.

"We are all members of one household, and this moment demands that we continue to work and build our country together," Tinubu aforesaid in a affirmation.

Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999 after III decades of just about uninterrupted field of study rule, but accusations of ballot-tackle and put-on throw followed its selection cycles.

The discernment by septenary Sovereign Court judges, which is final, follows a blueprint seen in former presidential elections that get been challenged in courtroom. None of the attempts to reverse results through and through the courts has been successful.

"This judgment by the Supreme Court has evidently shaken the confidence of Nigerians in the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court as the last hope of the common man," the PDP aforementioned.

Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Saint Peter the Apostle Obi of the Lying-in Party came second gear and third respectively in the February vote, but jilted the answer and named for Tinubu's gain to be annulled.

The two oppositeness leaders had appealed a Sept. 6 tribunal judgement that endorsed Tinubu's victory.

In the appeal, they argued that the option charge failing to electronically communicate results from polling Stations of the Cross to an online portal, which undermined their legitimacy.

They also aforesaid Tinubu had won less than 25% of the voter turnout in the Federal soldier Das Kapital Nigerian capital so he did non conform to the collection threshold to suit Chief Executive.

The judges laid-off wholly their arguments. (Coverage by Camillus Eboh in Capital of Nigeria and MacDonald Dzirutwe in Lagos, extra coverage by Felix Onuah in Abuja; Editing by Estelle Shirbon, Sharon Singleton and Christina Fincher)